I am creating an app using Node, Express and ejs and multer for uploading images. Every time I submit the form, req.file is undefined. I've spent the entire day troubleshooting but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
HTML
<form action="/post" id="formPost" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="image" required>
<input type="submit" value="Post" />
</form>
app.js
const path = require('path');
const express = require('express');
const morgan = require('morgan');
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
const multer = require('multer');
const app = express();
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')))
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname,'resources/views'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
const storage = multer.diskStorage({
destination: function (req, file, cb) {
cb(null, "./image");
},
filename: function (req, file, cb) {
console.log(req.file);
cb(null, Date.now() "-" file.fieldname ".png");
},
});
const upload = multer({ storage: storage });
app.post("/post", upload.single("image"), (req, res) => {
console.log(req.file);
});
app.get("/post", (req, res) => {
res.render("post");
});
app.listen(, () => {
console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:3000/login`);
});
CodePudding user response:
You have few little bugs: first you forgot to add port
and instead of login
it should be post
then we hit the correct address immediately, avoiding error Cannot GET /login
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:3000/post`);
});
Project Folder & File structure:
app.js I added simple an error handler to the:
app.post("/post", upload.single("image"), (req, res, next) => {}
const path = require("path");
const express = require("express");
const morgan = require("morgan");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
const multer = require("multer");
const app = express();
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, "public")));
app.set("view engine", "ejs");
app.set("views", path.join(__dirname, "resources/views"));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
const storage = multer.diskStorage({
destination: function (req, file, cb) {
cb(null, "./image");
},
filename: function (req, file, cb) {
console.log(req.file);
cb(null, Date.now() "-" file.fieldname ".png");
},
});
const upload = multer({ storage: storage });
// app.post("/post", upload.single("image"), (req, res) => {
// console.log(req.file);
// });
app.post("/post", upload.single("image"), (req, res, next) => {
const file = req.file;
if (!file) {
const error = new Error("Please upload a file");
error.httpStatusCode = 400;
return next(error);
}
res.send(file);
console.log("Success", req.file);
});
app.get("/post", (req, res) => {
res.render("post");
});
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:3000/post`);
});
post.ejs
<form action="/post" id="formPost" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="image" required />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>
output:
after selecting the file and pressing upload file:
VSCode output:
Works like a charm ;-)